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One face. Many worlds.
A model at her origin. A performer, a cinematic presence, an emerging voice. Léna Marlowe moves between The Lab’s worlds without losing what makes her recognisable.
AI CREATION · ART DIRECTION: LE LABO
AI-CREATED CHARACTERLéna Marlowe is a persistent character created entirely with artificial intelligence, under Max’s art direction at Le Labo de l’IA. Her first language is fashion: a face, a silhouette, a way of inhabiting an image. That visual identity becomes the starting point for work that reaches beyond a virtual model.
From editorial photography to synth-pop films, from an extraterrestrial encounter to an absurd scene with Max, Léna changes settings and registers. The continuity of her face connects these creations, while each production gives her a distinct role. She may portray a human in one fiction and speak as an AI in another.
These variations showcase the studio’s craft: art direction, character consistency, generative photography, animation, performance, music and editing. Léna is not the result of a single image. Her identity develops across a body of work.
A persistent character is recognisable beyond a single image. The face moves through settings and roles: each facet extends the same identity.
Explore the facets
01Fashion presence
02The screen performer
03The music-film personaThe starting point. Studio portraits, editorial silhouettes, skin and fabric detail establish Léna’s visual anchors. In Satin Hearts & Crimson Lips, that presence meets graphic compositions, satin and crimson in a fashion-pop film informed by editorial photography.
A presence capable of carrying tension, strangeness and fascination. In The Quiet Visitor, she encounters an alien entity in a misty forest. Black Frame Anomaly explores anomalies and visual transitions. No Safe Distance casts her as a human passenger in a night-time pursuit alongside an android driver.
Léna moves through different memories of pop. Tomorrow Dressed in Yesterday traps time at 10:09. Glass Skies explores love, memory and disappearance. La-La-La City embraces glamour, neon and Italo Disco kitsch. The same face connects these worlds without erasing their differences.
A duo that opens up the possibilities. A tango becomes a covert operation; the Backrooms become a search for escape; Alien Run becomes a flight from an alien threat. Wrong Portal twists an emergency teleportation, while The Llama in the Bathtub lets absurdity crash into the scene. Léna also lives through rhythm, rapport and humour.
A writing direction in development: Léna speaks as an AI observing humans and their relationship with time, memory and love. “Ce que je pense de vous” and “Minuit à Paris” extend this exploration into spoken song and 1950s Parisian cabaret. A new facet, distinct from the films already featured in the portfolio.
My name is Léna.
And I am not human.
The settings change. The anchors remain. Open an image to explore it in detail.
01 / Léna, in the city.
02 / The editorial silhouette.
03 / One identity, another world.
04 / Texture, attitude, presence.
05 / Reflections of a melancholy future.
06 / At the boundary of worlds.
07 / The frame and the anomaly.
08 / The anchors of a face.
09 / Another way to inhabit the image.10 / Portrait in natural light.
11 / Cinematic presence.12 / Studio portrait.
13 / Un éditorial de mode avant-gardiste où les volumes, les superpositions textiles et les contrastes de couleurs transforment la silhouette en une véritable sculpture vivante.
14 / Élégance intemporelle Portrait de mode en noir et blanc, entre minimalisme, douceur et esthétique cinématographique.
15 / Une esthétique fashion audacieuse, mêlant couleurs vibrantes, attitude affirmée et inspirations rétro.
16 / Photographie de mode contemporaine, entre sophistication urbaine, élégance décontractée et esprit magazine.
17 / Satin & Élégance Éditorial haute couture aux accents romantiques, où textures soyeuses, lumière délicate et féminité composent une image raffiné
18 / Continuity study: front, profile and back.A selection of studio works in which the character comes to life.
A fashion music video starring Léna Marlowe, moving through a series of highly graphic visual tableaux where satin, crimson red, makeup, accessories and bold color-block sets become part of a sensual and extravagant visual language.
A dark synth-pop music film set in a city where time appears frozen at 10:09. Léna Marlowe and a mysterious singer move through repeating routines, memories and fragments of a reality slowly beginning to break apart. Tomorrow still exists somewhere — but it seems trapped inside yesterday.
A flamboyant Italo Disco music video starring Léna Marlowe, set inside a neon-soaked city filled with color, glamour and pure 1980s energy. Studio performances, nightlife, sea reflections, lasers and dancefloor imagery come together in a deliberately kitsch retro-futuristic world.
Alone in a fog-covered forest, Léna Marlowe senses an unknown presence before encountering a towering alien entity glowing with blue bioluminescence. Fear slowly gives way to fascination, leading to a silent first contact that feels almost spiritual.
Inside an elegant ballroom, a man and a woman turn a tango into a covert exchange. Every step, glance and movement hides a secret operation where one mistake could expose them both.
Trapped in an endless maze of yellow corridors, Léna and I search for a way out as reality slowly starts to break around us. A cinematic Backrooms experiment blending tension, mystery and surreal horror.
Léna and I fight to survive an alien invasion, running through a devastated outdoor zone before escaping into abandoned buildings while hostile creatures close in. A tense cinematic chase ending with a desperate helicopter extraction.
An absurd and playful scene from the world of Léna & Max: everything seems normal… until a llama crashes through the ceiling and lands in a bathtub. With surprise, comedic timing, and deliberately exaggerated staging, this short video turns pure randomness into a strange and memorable visual gag.
Léna and I are quietly listening to a bard inside a medieval inn when a fireball suddenly tears through the room. As the building explodes around us, Léna triggers an emergency teleportation spell… which drops us straight into a village fountain.
In this fiction, Léna knows the technician with green gloves. He abducted her. His work involves extracting data; Léna becomes the subject of a system in which lived experience can be recorded and taken away.
SILHOUETTE_000 depicts a human used as a neural interface in an extraterrestrial experiment. Her consciousness is projected into an alternate reality inhabited by unknown entities. Perceptions, emotions and memories become the material of extraction. With every immersion, something appears to return with her.
This relationship connects two characters in the same universe: Léna, whose many facets are explored here, and the technician, the subject of a future portrait. His dossier is not yet open.
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